Planetary specters : race, migration, and climate change in the twenty-first century / Neel Ahuja.
Planetary specters : race, migration, and climate change in the twenty-first century / Neel Ahuja.
Planetary specters : race, migration, and climate change in the twenty-first century / Neel Ahuja.
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Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
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G 2021/2306
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English
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210 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: The specter of insecurity -- Race, insecurity, and the invention of the climate migrant -- The changing wealth of nations: Oil, labor, and racial capitalism -- From insecurity to adaptation: Bangladesh, human capital, and the figure of the climate refugee -- Weather as war: Race, disab...
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Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
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North Carolina
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[2021]
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"Neel Ahuja traces the development of "climate migrant" discourses in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, politicians, and NGOs have often oversimplified climate change and obfuscated the complex processes that have led to mass and supposedly environmental-change driven migration. To understand...
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Planetary specters : race, migration, and climate change in the twenty-first century / Neel Ahuja.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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© 2021
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G 2021/2306
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74VKaXKmBQQy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaXKmBQQy
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ISBN
1469664461
9781469664460
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304.8
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991024434624702626
